bjkchoy

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   by bjkchoy 3y ago

   SCons is listed as a meta build system here, but it is clearly an end-to-end build system. It seems to me SCons even fits all the requirements listed by the author. Plus, you program your SCons build using Python. He also describes the dyna
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   by bjkchoy 3y ago

   Rust strings enforce utf-8 encoding, yes. However, it seems Windows (which uses utf-16) allows ill-formed UTF-16, in particular it tolerates unpaired surrogates. You can read more here http://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/
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   by bjkchoy 4y ago

   I saw this "shortcut" used in code snippets, on online JS/CSS/HTML editors like JSFiddle. It did not even occur to me this was part of JS spec, I thought the editor was generating code behind my back!
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   by bjkchoy 4y ago

   One of my preferred video clip ever was filmed entirely during a parabolic flight: OK Go, Upside Down & Inside Out https://youtu.be/LWGJA9i18Co
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   by bjkchoy 5y ago

   These days RhodeCode has a Community edition which is licensed under AGPLv3.
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   by bjkchoy 6y ago

   There is a very clever and beautiful algorithm that only uses the xor operation. It's the Luby Transform code, the simplest implementation of a Fountain Code. A Fountain Code lets you transmit a file over an unreliable connection (pack